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The New Yorker and Rockwood
John Donohue gave us a very nice write-up in this week’s New Yorker for the show this Thursday at Rockwood. It’s also our first extended mention in The New Yorker. My favorite magazine on the planet.
.. her perserverance became the inspiration for Jacob’s lush new album, “Pain Is A Reliable Signal.” On songs like “The Mayo Clinic” and “Dirty White Coats”, Jacobs transforms the ordeal into three-minute philosophical meditations formed around simple chord changes, laid-back tempos, and his sensitive baritone vocals. A first-rate band that includes Katie Scheele, on oboe and English horn, Dan Levine, on trombone and euphonium, and Stan Harrison, on saxophones and flute, provides harmonically lush accompaniment.
Blessed and endorsed by the world’s best magazine. Thursday, December 3rd. Rockwood Music Hall. 184 Allan Street. 9pm sharp.
Rockwood Music Hall. December 3rd.
The first lesson of the Autumn Symposium was held at Pianos on November 11, 2009. You can read about it here. The next show for The Flying Change is Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at Rockwood Music Hall. It’s going to be Lesson #2 in our Autumn Symposium. Expect more beauty. Expect more weirdness. See you there.
Pianos Tomorrow Night
We’re playing a big show tomorrow night at Pianos. 9PM. The first in our Autumn Symposium. The band will feature many players. The sounds will be epic and melancholy and enormous and fill the cavernous room with our moans and our howling. Pianos is at 158 Ludlow St at Stanton on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. See you there.
An Autumn Symposium: Lesson #1
We’re playing our next show at Piano’s on Wednesday, Nov 11th at 9:00pm. The show will be Lesson #1 in a two part symposium that we’re presenting this fall and will feature a companion course reader for attending guests.
The Flying Change Live
Wednesday, November 11th
9pm
Piano’s
158 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
The Mayo Clinic (The Processor Remix)
Today, via the mailing list, we’re releasing a new remix of ‘The Mayo Clinic’ dubbed ‘The Processor Remix’ and conceived and composed by John P Hastings. We’ll be posting an interview with Hastings later today. In the meantime, sign up for the mailing list to grab a copy of the tune.
UPDATE: Here’s the interview. Dig it.
The Antlers & The Flying Change
Alex Tudor wrote a great review of the new Antlers album, Hospice, in Drowned in Sound today and name checked The Flying Change. The guys at DiS have become great supporters of the music and it’s pretty cool to be associated with other bands that are making great and powerful music.
Here’s the full paragraph:
This is what artists do. As well as re-shuffling the deck of influences and instrumentation, for a new/old way to rock out, they also re-orient you by the archetypes of your time. Where the supposedly ‘modern’ rock song intersects with ‘traditional’ healing rituals is in the swirl of images that may not be new, individually, but remind you that you’re on a well-trodden path. This year, Sam Jacobs (as The Flying Change) released a magnificent album to do what the doctors literally couldn’t, for his sick wife, while Shearwater (on Palo Santo, and several songs from Rook, last year) used the drama of Nico’s life, and the symbolism of her art to ask how and why we turn the one into the other. So, Yes, you’ve heard much of this before. That’s a good thing, in this case.
Little pots of water on the stove, my friends. Little pots of water. One day they’ll bubble over.
